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His daughter Lori was the star of Day of the Dead, the third in the original trilogy.

Just listening to this months after the fact. You might have cleared this up on a later show, but Nikita is a French female name, but a Russian male name.

Doc & Gordy might have been on a relative high money per night deal but they wouldn't have been high money over the full year as their main gig was with AJPW. Did AJPW not care about their Gaijin working for WCW when they had the deal with New Japan? I'm guessing they couldn't have done anything like Muta or Sasake or Chono vs Williams or Gordy without political fallout, although Muta and Williams were in a battle royal together at Starrcade '92 and Williams went over Liger in a tag match at that same event.

This was an enjoyable show. I only got into Titans in the last 3 months or show, went back and listened to all the past shows and now it's hard to get used to no new episodes to listen to. More than 10 shows this year please guys!

I hated it probably more than anything in wrestling before or since. Just saw it as WWF throwing away all the progress they'd made in moving past Hogan/Warrior muscleman garbage and onto great workers and having great matches at the top of the card. I was a massive Bret fan, he's still my favourite wrestler of all time. My biggest mark out moment ever was him being introduced as the new champion on TV in 1992.

You can charge higher ticket prices when you run shows in more cities, and appear in each market less frequently. Plus having the product seeming big-time and national makes the percieved value of tickets that much higher than for just a Mom & Pop run local promotion. Plus running nationally is better for merchandising, sponsorship etc. Crockett had to do it, he just made a bad job of it, such as keeping the same accountant that had been doing the family business accounts for decades, despite the fact that they now had a turnover in the tens of millions, were paying wrestlers hundreds of thousands of dollars and were buying Lear jets to fly wrestlers around the country. Rhodes should have been fired, at the latest, after Starrcade 87. Flair should have turned face far sooner than he was, and they should have put the tag belts on the Road Warriors and pushed them as the top stars headlining shows in new markets like Chicago and LA.

Dave was always noticeably fatter than Earl, even back at "The Big Event" when Earl debuted in WWF. Dave never refereed after that point, they just used Earl as "Dave Hebner" for a few years before people forgot about the screwing of Hogan. Dave would sometimes make appearances such as trying to free Warrior from the coffin, and trying to stop Elizabeth going to the ring at WM8.

"Karate is illegal in professional wrestling".

the real crime here is they never gave this feud its PPV blow off. Tito vs Rick 89 Summerslam! They were supposed to have a blow off at SummerSlam '90 but Martel got injured (I think) and Warlord ended up beating Santana.

- "Daddy" Wrestlers always came back from a "succesful tour of Japan", even the guys who were the designated jobbers in the annual tag tournaments.

I never understood it at all. Did they actually go into it thinking that the fans would be happy after all that build with the Gooker popping out of the egg? Was he supposed to stick around and be a full time character, or just a mascot for Survivor Series that they could bring back year after year? Was a heel supposed to get heat by beating him up or something?

Fuji managing Demolition never worked. Either time. They should have turned them face way before they actually did, and had Fuji bring in the Powers of Pain as heels to get revenge. I think they put Fuji with them in 1990 just to cool them off, make sure the fans were behind the LOD, and to downgrade the team to mid-cart after that feud was over.

I always thought Steve Austin's career took a major step backwards in WCW when Col. Rob Parker became his manager. As far as I why Jimmy Hart became Hogan's manager, I believe it was because he became his shoot manager in real life and they thought it'd be strange to have a heel manager tagging along with Hogan at personal appearances etc. It was a terrible idea though. Damaged both Hogan and Jimmy.

Anyone remember Jim Neidhart being in WCW in 1993? He did a submission move called the "Anvilizer" as a finisher. I only remember him winning a couple of squash matches and that was it. If I had to guess I'd say Watts brought him in and then after Watts left, he soon left as well.

Dave has said that he attended a Lawler vs Dundee match at the MSC (May have been one of the Loser Leaves Town matches) and was blown away by it. In general though, Dave is prejudiced against southern territorial wrestling.

JYD and Muraco both got fired for misbehaving on a trip to Europe late in 1988. JYD got drunk and pissed on the bus seats. Not sure about Muraco, think he may have threatened Nick Bockwinkel when he was administering the urine tests or something. But there was a massive cull of talent around that time in any case. Patera, the Bulldogs, Brian Blair, Harley Race, probably others. And plenty of new guys came in, Bad News, Owen Hart, the Bushwhackers, the Rockers, Terry Taylor, Curt Hennig etc.

Don't stand up on the top rope when your opponent is trying to superplex you.

If you're into racial violence involving the Caribbean Sunshine Boys, there's an actual ringside fight between Kincaid and several spectators in this match: Starts around 13 minutes in.

Oh yeah, only one though, What sheets were around in the early 80s? Did Matwatch go back that far? Or was it just the collections of clippings and results like Dave Justice etc put out? I probably ought to know this, but were there any British dirtsheets?

My head did spin a little bit at the breakdown in communication when Chad said the word "exile" and Chris and Bix immediately assumed he was talking about their show, when in fact he was referring to Memphis's wrestling's exile from the Mid-South coliseum. Great show though, BTS is the best wrestling podcast around at the moment. As far as years go, are you restricting yourselves to only stuff after the Torch started?

Great show, i have the week off work and on monday, a new Titans, Between the Sheets and Exile all get released.

The early FWA stuff was terrible. The later stuff wasn't that much better, nearly all the "FWA guys" - Sloane, Tighe, Jack Xavier, Scott Parker, Paul Tyrell - never did anything outside the promotion, only Paul Burchill really broke out of that pack. Jody and Jonny gained some notoreity but they were names before that. Always hated the fact that every upstart British promotion tried to imitate ECW and ended up going down in flames, meanwhile you had All-Star doing packed houses (they did a crowd of 2000+ just down the road from me with a show with Earthquake) and getting absolutely no credit or coverage online at all. Alex Shane is a absolute carney who was always far better at promoting himself than promoting any group he was involved with. But I do give him credit for getting British wrestling back into the media with the Talksport show, and spots on the Big Breakfast etc. But the British scene is so much stronger now than then that it's not even funny.

Just do what Parv does and say "WF" instead.

How many PPV main events have been under 10 minutes? I thought Hogan vs Bundy from WM2 was but it went 10:15. Sting vs Giant at GAB '98 went 6:40, I think that might be the shortest advertised main event. I'm not counting stuff like Terry Funk vs Raven at ECW Barely Legal (7:20) because that was basically a continuation of the previous match, or Sting vs Jeff Hardy TNA Victory Road (1:28) because that was just a debacle. Or matches like Studd Stable vs Rock 'n Roll Express or Gilbert & Steiner vs Varsity Club at WrestleWar '89 which were "standby matches" that went on after the main event.

Cactus Jack / Kevin Sullivan vs Nasty Boys from Slamboree '94.